FÖLLAKZOID UNVEIL “IIII” OFF UPCOMING FOUR-PART ALBUM ‘I’

RJ Frometa June 18, 2019 News Leave a comment

Föllakzoid grows via depuration, aiming with each record to fill longer spaces of time with fewer and fewer elements. The creative perspective of the band has always been about unlearning the narrative and musical knowledge that shape the physical and digital formats and conceptions available, both visually and musically in order to make a time-space metric structure that dissolves both the author and the narrative paradigms. Today they’ve unveiled the last quarter – “IIII” – of their forthcoming, four-part record ‘I‘ which sees its release on Sacred Bones August 1.

LISTEN “IIII” HERE

Föllakzoid‘s journey began 10 years ago as a trance experience between childhood friends Domingae and Diego from Santiago, Chile. Heavily informed by the heritage of the ancient music of the Andes, the band has learned to integrate their origins with contemporary sounds and technologies of our times, creating a rich yet minimal electronic-organic atmosphere.

Unlike past Föllakzoid records that were done in single takes with the full band, this record took three months to construct out of more than 60 separate stems – guitars, bass, drums, synthesizers, and vocals, all recorded in isolation. Producer Atom TM, who was not present for recording, was then asked to re-organize the four sequences of stems without any length, structural restrictions or guidelines. Those sequences ultimately became the four long tracks that appear on ‘I‘.

The result of this was a set of songs where neither the band’s, nor the producer’s, structural vision primarily shaped the metric or tonal space shifts, but where both were still subliminally present in each of the parts that form the structure and the frequency modulations that guide them.

Föllakzoid

‘I’

Sacred Bones

August 1, 2019

 Pre-order Here

1. I

2. II

3. III

4. IIII

Föllakzoid Live Dates: 

09/01: Brighton, UK – Patterns

09/02: Birmingham, UK – Hare and Hounds

09/03: Glasgow, UK – Broadcast

09/04: Leeds, UK- Brudenell social club

09/05: Manchester, UK – White Hotel

09/06: Sheffield, UK – Picture house social

09/07: London, UK – Dingwalls In

09/08: Brussels, BE – Botanique

09/09: Eindhoven, NL – Effenaar

09/10: Aachen, DE – MusikBunker

09/11: Malmo, SE – Plan B

09/13: Aalborg, DK – Studenterhuset

09/14: Gothenburg, SE – Musikens Hus

09/15: Stockholm, SE – Hus 7

09/17: Helsinki, FI – Kuudes Linja

09/20: Tallin, EE – Von Krahl

09/22: Warsaw, PL -Poglos

09/23: Krakow, PL – Alchemia

09/24: Brno, CZ – Kabinet Muz

09/25: Wien, AT – Chelsea

09/26: Leipzig, DE – Ut Connewitz

09/27: Berlin, DE – Bi Nuu

09/28: Hannover, DE – Cafe Glocksee

10/08: Bratislava, SK – Fuga

10/09: Zagreb, HR – Vintage Industrial Bar

10/12: Belgrade, RS – Drugstore

10/14: Timisoara, RO – Reflektor

10/16: Bucarest, RO – Control Club

10/17: Sofia, BG – Mixtape 5

10/18: Istanbul, TR – Salon IKSV

10/19: Thessaloniki, GR – Eight Ball

10/21: Skopje, MK – MKC

10/22: Larissa, GR – Stage

10/23: Athens, GR – The Temple

10/25: Ravenna, IT – Bronson

10/26: Verona, IT – Kroen

10/29: Paris, FR – Le Petit Bain

10/30: Zurich, CH – Zukunft

11/08: Kortrijk, BE – Sonic City

11/10: Utrecht, NL LGW? Festival

11/11: Nijmegen, NL – Doornroosje

About RJ Frometa

Head Honcho, Editor in Chief and writer here on VENTS. I don't like walking on the beach, but I love playing the guitar and geeking out about music. I am also a movie maniac and 6 hours sleeper.

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